Title: All I Want for Christmas Is You (And Only You) Author:straydog733 Recipient:stillscape Prompt: Andy dragging the Parks department out for caroling. Rating: G Word Count: ~2500
Please see icon. I love your April and the way you depict her relationship with everyone and how sickeningly adorable Ben and Leslie are and the end was just ugh, it pulled on my heart, no lie.
This whole fic was awesomesauce. I love your April; you straddle the line of her caring so well (and Andy, as well, is just excellent in this). Really, I enjoyed all of this immensely, but the flashbacks of Andy and April caroling together were my favorite parts. So glad I saw that you posted this tonight.
I loved the well developed relationships you had between everyone. The cute bubble of excitment about their marriage that Ben and Leslie live in, the relationship between Andy, April and Ben, April's distaste for Ann, Donna's reaction to it all, and most of all April and Andy's relationship. This was so true to the characters and so heartwarming. I loved the flashbacks, I loved Andy understanding her, I loved the future scene, I loved April's pretend distaste but love for their tradition, I love the idea of them having an animal shelter, and I loved that Ben was the one that knew their secret.
God, this was why all couples needed to have surprise weddings; to spare everyone their engagements.
This is such a perfect April line. She does love everyone, but mostly reluctantly. Just like she loves Christmas kind of reluctantly. And I love when the whole ensemble gets together, and you've pretty much nailed everybody here. Thank you so much! I'm sorry this took me an entire week to read; life has been a little...overcrowded lately (as you might have guessed from the fact that I am posting at two in the morning).
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This is such a perfect April line. She does love everyone, but mostly reluctantly. Just like she loves Christmas kind of reluctantly. And I love when the whole ensemble gets together, and you've pretty much nailed everybody here. Thank you so much! I'm sorry this took me an entire week to read; life has been a little...overcrowded lately (as you might have guessed from the fact that I am posting at two in the morning).
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